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  • information technology: reservation system infrastructure updated, but future system sustainability remains an issue
    our audit objective was to determine to what extent the res-ng program met its objective of modernizing the company’s reservation system.
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  • governance: profile of timesheet data of agreement employees for calendar year 2014
    our reporting objective was to analyze timesheet data to identify trends and patterns that could be useful in detecting fraud, waste, and abuse. using a specialized data-analysis software tool, we analyzed 100 percent of the hours recorded on more than 4.5 million daily timesheets submitted by and paid to approximately 19,300 agreement-covered employees in cy 2014.
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  • company with federal and state contracts to pay $390k to resolve allegations it had unqualified employee
    deirdre m. daly, united states attorney for the district of connecticut, and george c. jepsen, attorney general for the state of connecticut, today announced that garg consulting services, inc. ("garg") has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal government and the state of connecticut in which garg will pay $390,000 to resolve allegations that the rocky hill-based company…
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  • oig status report: january 1 through march 31, 2015
    we had 15 ongoing audits addressing 6 focus areas of our annual audit plan as of march 31, 2015. as of march 31, 2015, we had 65 active investigations focusing on significant allegations of suspected fraud, waste, and misconduct in the following areas.
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  • responding to freedom of information act requests
    at the request of the senate committee on homeland security and governmental affairs we are initiating work on the company’s process for responding to freedom of information act (foia) requests. our objective is to review the controls over processing foia requests.
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  • ethics policy violation
    we conducted an investigation of an amtrak executive based on an allegation that he did not disclose his ownership interest in an outside company, while recommending for hire a contractor associated with the company. this initial allegation led to additional inquiry regarding the executive using amtrak resources to conduct personal business on company time.
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  • audit of efforts to implement positive train control
    our audit objective is to assess the company’s progress addressing the challenges we noted in our interim report.
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  • human capital
    mission the human capital management team provides a wide variety of sensitive, critical services and management functions aimed at improving organizational performance and culture to meet oig strategic business needs including workforce planning, performance management, employee recognition, recruitment, staffing and classification, employee relations, compensation, employee training and…
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  • payroll overpayments
    in february 2015, the oig learned that two amtrak employees were significantly overpaid on several occasions from august 2014 through january 2015. we subsequently identified and determined that the overpayments were made by two assignment clerks; however, we found no evidence of fraud associated with the payments.
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  • fuel card misuse
    over the past six years, we received a number of allegations involving the fraudulent use of amtrak company cards for unauthorized fuel expenditures. our investigations identified over $95,000.00 in fraudulent fuel card transactions - $37,877.13 by company employees and $57,424.70 by an individual not employed by the company.
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